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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2010-2601

High
7.6/10

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in the PDF distiller in the Attachment Service component in Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software 4.1.7 and earlier and 5.0.0 through 5.0.2, and BlackBerry Professional Software 4.1.4 and earlier, allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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  • Published